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'Bachelor' antics insulting, disrespectful

‘Bachelor’ antics insulting, disrespectful

Published Mar 6, 2009

In one of the most romantic endings yet on ABC's "The Bachelor," Jason Mesnick declared his love for Melissa Rycroft, proposed to her and bestowed her with the coveted final rose. He said he was the "happiest man in the universe" and couldn't wait to start his life with Rycroft.

Flash forward to "After the Final Rose" and you find a completely different Jason.



"After the Final Rose" is normally a segment where the new couple shares their love and future plans. The audience oohs and aahs at the couple and hopes against all hope the two will actually last.

Italian opera to bring romance to campus

Published Mar 6, 2009

The School of Music and Opera Studio will bring a little piece of Italy to Fort Worth this weekend with a performance of L'Ormindo, a 17th-century baroque comedy.Ten students and one guest artist will...

Men’s tennis team begins busy stretch with San Diego match

Published Mar 6, 2009

The No. 43-ranked men's tennis team continues its six-match homestand Friday and Saturday against the University of San Diego and the University of Texas at San Antonio. The team will look to build a winning...

Violence in Mexico prompts travel alert

Published Mar 6, 2009

Escalating violence in Mexico led the university to issue a travel alert advising spring breakers of the potential dangers in traveling to the country, a university official said.

Lt. Ramiro Abad, head of the campus police patrol division, said the university received the travel alert from the U.S. State Department and passed the information on to students because many travel to Mexico for spring break.

Efforts to expand study abroad program commendable

Published Mar 6, 2009

Despite ongoing campus-wide budget cuts, the university has maintained its commitment to providing students with unique and valuable academic experiences and recently established a partnership with Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

TCU's newest exchange program will provide study opportunities for students in a variety of disciplines.



Founded as an engineering school in 1981, Nanyang now offers programs in areas such as art, communication and business, so applicants are not going to be limited by their major.

Lady Frogs to end season against Utes

Lady Frogs to end season against Utes

Published Mar 6, 2009

A Mountain West Conference title is no longer in the picture for the women's basketball team, but head coach Jeff Mittie said ending the season with a win against a first-place University of Utah squad could help set the tone for the upcoming conference tournament.

"Both Utah and us are fighting for an NCAA tournament spot and knowing we could likely face them in the Mountain West Championship makes winning Saturday very important," Mittie said.

Student filmmakers get red carpet treatment

Published Mar 6, 2009

Programming Council and the Student Filmmakers Association are hosting a red carpet event that will showcase student-produced films on Friday.

Jason Knutzen, senior radio-TV-film major and president of the Student Filmmakers Association, said the event is a premiere of the projects that students have been working on for the past three semesters.



"We want to showcase the effort, work and time students have put into these films," Knutzen said.



The 50-60 members in the SFA are divided into film crews, directors and actors, Knutzen said.

Musician swaps Hollywood for college life

Musician swaps Hollywood for college life

Published Mar 6, 2009

J. Mack Slaughter Jr. knows what it's like to be an adult while an adolescent.

At 17, the Fort Worth native had accomplished fame with a career in a boy band. But he left the glitz and glamour of Los Angeles and returned home to pursue a career in medicine. Slaughter is now a pre-med neuroscience major at the university and has established the Zachary Music Foundation, a nonprofit organization that provides music lessons to adolescent patients.

Baseball team to start home stretch with Wichita State

Published Mar 6, 2009

Wednesday night's hiccup against Baylor University was the first for the Horned Frog baseball team since their season-opening loss to Cal State Fullerton on Feb. 20.In between the two losses, the team...

AddRan enrollment stands firm despite national trend

Published Mar 6, 2009

The current economic situation is causing universities across the country to prepare for possible enrollment decreases in their liberal arts departments, but the university's program is not following that pattern, a university official said.

Nowell Donovan, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, said enrollment in liberal arts classes has increased.



Andy Schoolmaster, dean of AddRan College of Liberal Arts, said enrollment for the spring semester credit hour generation in the college was up this spring over last spring.

Sports brief: Texas Sports Hall of Fame welcomes Tomlinson

Published Mar 6, 2009

Former TCU running back and current San Diego Charger LaDainian Tomlinson was among seven Texas athletes inducted into the Texas Sports Hall of Fame Wednesday night in Waco.



The ceremony took place at the Ferrell Center on the campus of Baylor University, very close to where Tomlinson played football at University High School.



Tomlinson rushed for 5,263 yards during his career at TCU and was a Heisman Trophy finalist as a senior in 2000.

Campus should do more to improve graduation rate

Published Mar 5, 2009

The university's decision to implement a flat-rate tuition in 2001 was supposed to encourage a greater number of students to take enough classes to graduate in four years.

Under this tuition system, a full-time student taking 18 hours pays the same amount of money as a full-time student who is taking just 12.



Although the move to the flat rate was designed to benefit students, it has seen limited success up to this point. A 44.9 percent four-year graduation rate in the year 2000 jumped to just 54 percent by 2004.